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A school-boy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
Childe Harold, Canto II. LORD BYRON.
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,
Let me review the scene,
And summon from the shadowy Past
The forms that once have been.
A Gleam of Sunshine. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
Applause
To that blest son of foresight: lord of fate!
That awful independent on to-morrow
Whose work is done; who triumphs in the past;
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
Night Thoughts, Night II. DR. E. YOUNG.
For time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly,
Grasps-in the comer. Welcome ever smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing.
Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
PATIENCE.
Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Columbus. J.R. LOWELL.
His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains,
But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.
The Borough. G. CRABBE.
'Tis all men's office to speak patience
To those that ring under the load of sorrow.
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself.
Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
And I must bear
What is ordained with patience, being aware
Necessity doth front the universe
With an invincible gesture.
Prometheus Bound. E.B. BROWNING.